{"id":405614,"date":"2021-03-18T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405614"},"modified":"2021-03-18T11:54:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:24:42","slug":"iaf-group-captain-dies-in-mig-21-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-group-captain-dies-in-mig-21-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF Group Captain dies in MiG-21 accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Group Captain of the Indian Air Force was killed in an accident involving a MiG-21 Bison aircraft at an airbase in central India on Wednesday, the IAF said.<\/p>\n<p>The accident took place when the aircraft was taking off for a combat training mission, the IAF said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>It said Group Captain A Gupta was killed in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>A court of inquiry has been ordered to determine the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A MiG-21 Bison aircraft of IAF was involved in a fatal accident this morning, while taking off for a combat training mission at an airbase in central India,&#8221; the IAF said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Group Captain of the Indian Air Force was killed in an accident involving a MiG-21 Bison aircraft at an airbase in central India on Wednesday, the IAF said. The accident took place when the aircraft was taking off for a combat training mission, the IAF said on Twitter. It said Group Captain A Gupta was killed in the accident. A court of inquiry has been ordered to determine the cause of the accident. &#8220;A MiG-21 Bison aircraft of IAF was involved in a fatal accident this morning, while taking off for a combat training mission at an airbase in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}